You Get What You Pay For: Incentives and Selection in the Education System
研究教师自我选择行为，发现教师比其它职业者更厌恶风险、更信任他人且负互惠性更低，表明当前制度下风险规避型个体倾向于选择教师职业。
We analyse worker self-selection, with a special focus on teachers, to explore whether worker composition is generally endogenous. We analyse laboratory experimental data to provide causal evidence on particular sorting patterns. Our field data analysis focuses specifically on selection patterns of teachers. We find that teachers are more risk averse than employees in other professions, indicating that relatively risk averse individuals sort into teaching occupations under the current system. Using survey measures on trust and reciprocity we find that teachers trust more and are less negatively reciprocal than other employees, and establish differences in personality based on the Big Five concept. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2010.